Silver Bells and Serendipity

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Silver Bells and Serendipity falls in 3.5 in a series, however, you do not need to read any of the other books to know what is going on. Some of the FMCs from the first books become friends with the FMC later in this book, but not reading the other books is not detrimental to the story.

This story follows Christmas over 3 years, where FMC and MMC meet the first time, and each subsequent time after. They only ever spend a day with each other, or an evening, and hope to chance an encounter the next year. During the first two encounters, neither character are really at a place in life where a relationship or something more is an option. Book ends in a HEA.

Overall, the story is cute and you root for the MCs the whole way through. I feel that you get to learn more about Sylvie’s year each time then you do Cole, though the POV of the story is through Sylvie. I don’t feel like Mindy’s reasons were good enough for just bolting on their friendship, so I wish there was a bit more to it, especially if it was going to be made a point throughout the story. There is some spice starting in their second meet up. It is not overly spicy, but enough that is enjoyable and it is not fade to black. The story is creative and well written. It is unique, at least to me. I have not read too many books similar along these lines.